The Experiment Starts Here or “More power, Egor!!”
March 10, 2008
They said the weather was going to be bad and, guess what, they were wrong – as usual. Anybody that had been watching the Bruce on Saturday would have just stayed in bed on Sunday and missed a fabulous day. In our household we’d planned to be busy. It didn’t stop us having a lie in though. I’d got the weekend off (the ‘Men In Red’ owed me one!) and we were going to make the most of it. Croissants, bacon and egg, all on a slice of toasted homemade bread. Yes, I know, just like a scene out of ‘The Waltons’.
We received lots of new products from one of our suppliers on Friday and Jo is busy putting them on the This Eden site. Candles (larger then those we had before), moisturisers and bath milk – all with the This Eden name. You won’t see the bath milk on the site though. We discovered that even though it’s paraben free, it’s got some SLS in it. It will go on Song Of The Siren, we think it will be popular there (Jo tells me as I’m writing that we’ve sold one already!). We’ve sold a couple of the candles today as well and as a celebration we lit one ourselves over dinner. Well it’s cheaper than Champagne and you don’t get the hangover the next day – the ‘Men In Red’ wouldn’t like that. We would definately recommend the Jasmine, a bargain at £10. Told you it was cheaper than Champagne! and it lasts longer too.
We were also busy in the garden in the Sunday Heatwave, preparing the ground for Charlie and Lola. They won’t want to turn up to any old scruffy garden, so we tidied up a bit. The grass got a trim, the soil got a turn and I blew up the hedge trimmer (sorry Nicholas, I’m sure it can be fixed!). We finally got tired of looking at sprouting spuds in our kitchen and buried them, eyes down, in a few inches of lovely Bromsgrove loam. A row of red and a row of white. There’ll be potato salad all summer and bakies in the winter - who could ask for more out of life?
I also discovered an old bulb of garlic with a bit of green sprouting out of the top and so we planted that too. As I was turning the soil, I discovered some Spring Onions (don’t remember putting them there), so I put them in little rows next to the garlic – they’re from the same family, aren’t they?
The herbs didn’t appear – it was decided that there were other priorites and so we’ll put them in another time. We’re also thinking of putting in an apple tree. We’ve been told that the soil is good and Jo makes a mean apple crumble.
So, the scene is set. Just a week now before Charlie and Lola arrive with their little orange Eglu. And here is the question for this post – Will the red carpet that Jo’s put down clash with the orange Eglu?!
